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Dr Daniel Vázquez

PhD (King's College London); MPhil (UNAM); PGCAPHE (King's College London); BA (Universidad Panamericana); FHEA
Associate Professor & Head of Department

• Email: Daniel.Vazquez@mic.ul.ie
• Location: G16

More information

I started my studies in Mexico City, where I took two years of a BA in Communications (ITESM) before transferring to the BA in philosophy (Universidad Panamericana), where I graduated in 2006 (cum laude). I then studied for an MPhil in Philosophy (UNAM), graduating (cum laude) in 2010 with an award-winning dissertation on ancient scepticism. The same year, I moved to the UK to study for my PhD in philosophy at King’s College London, where I graduated with a dissertation on Plato and the Stoics in 2015. I also hold a PGCAP in Higher Education from King’s College London (Merit 2014) and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK (2017). In addition, I have spent research visiting periods in the Trinity Plato Centre in Dublin (2019-2020), Sapienza University of Rome and ILIESI, CRN (2019), Princeton University (2018), the Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford (2015-2016), Cornell University (2013), and Yale University (2012). 

In 2021, I became the Head of the Department of Philosophy at 91��Ƭ��. Before that, I worked for three years as an ERC Research Fellow based at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2018-2021), two years as a FAPESP Research Fellow at the University of Sao Paulo (2016-2018), and two years as a College Tutor in Ethics in Oriel College, University of Oxford (2014-2016) and a Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Oxford (2014-2015). During my doctoral studies, I also worked as a Tutor at King’s College London. In Mexico, I was an Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy at UNAM (Campus Acatlan) from 2008 to 2010 and at the Universidad Panamericana from 2007 to 2010. In the latter, I also worked as Associate Editor for ��ó�辱���Dz�, the university’s journal of philosophy (2005-2010).

Teaching 

My teaching competence comprises all areas of Ancient Philosophy, including the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic Philosophy, and Late antiquity. I have taught graduate seminars on the contemporary reception of Stoicism and a seminar comparing Greek, Roman, Chinese and Indian philosophy.

In Higher Education, I have taught Ethics, Epistemology, Political Philosophy, German idealism, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Love and Desire and Introductions to Philosophy. At the post-primary level, I have taught Logic and Ethics in both the Junior and Senior Cycles. Evidence of my commitment to teaching excellence includes a PGCAP, HEA Fellowship, and my paper “Reflections on Tutoring Ancient Greek Philosophy: A Case Study of Teaching First-Year Undergraduates in the UK.” Studying Teacher Education, 10.2 (2014), 117-129. In addition, I have supervised graduate students in Oxford and mentored graduate students at the Universidad Panamericana, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and 91��Ƭ��. 

I currently teach the following BA in Arts modules:

• PI4721: Fundamental Human Questions
• PI4712: Greek Philosophy

I also teach Climate Justice in the new MA Climate, Justice & Sustainability. 

Publications 

• . Philosophica (2025).
• Cambridge (2024).
• (coedited with Alberto Ross). Routledge (2024) 
• Theories of Causation in Early Stoicism. in . Routledge (2024).
• That’s What Makes the World Go Round: Causation in the Myth in the Statesman (coauthored with Saloni de Souza). In  Routledge (2024).
• Escepticismo, Metafísica y Argumentación. NUN (2024).
• (coedited with Viktor Ilievski and Silvia de Bianchi). Palgrave MacMillan (2023). 
• . In Ilievski, V.; Vázquez, D.; De Bianchi, S.;  Palgrave MacMillan (2023)
• , Elenchos, vol. 43, no. 1, 2022, pp. 29-54.
• , coedited with Alberto Ross. Brill (2022).
• . In Vázquez, D. & Ross, A. (eds.). Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition. Brill (2022).
• . In Vázquez, D. & Ross, A. (eds.). Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition. Brill (2022).
• . Mnemosyne (2022), 1-24.
• Escepticismo Radical y el Alcance de los Cinco Tropos para la Suspensión del Juicio. In Ornelas, J. (ed.). Rústicos vs. Urbanos, UNAM (2021). 
• . Rhizomata 9.1 (2021), 84-95. 
• . Australasian Philosophical Review 3.2 (2021), 183-190. Co-authored with Saloni de Souza. 
• . In Bosch, M. (ed.). Desire and Human Flourishing, Springer (2020), 213-228.
• . Schole 14.1 (2020), 82-103.
• Plato Journal 20 (2020), 231-234.
• . Manuscrito 42.3 (2019), 47-85. 
• . Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 100.3 (2018), 241-285.
• . In Roqueñi, J.M. (ed.). Afectividad y confianza en el conocimiento personal, Panorama (2016), 13-30.
• Stoic cosmology. Encyclopedia Entry for Ancient Philosophy Timeline, 2015.
• . Studying Teacher Education 10.2 (2014), 117-129.
• La relación entre necesidad lógica y necesidad de re. ���ܱ���í�� 5.8 (2011), 105-115. 
• Scepticism, Action and Language. The Classical Review 61.2 (2011), 432–433.
• (Oxford: OUP 2009). Dianoia LVI.66 (2011), 200-210.
• . ��ó�辱���Dz� 38 (2010), 85–116.
• . Hermathena 186 (2009), 43–57.
• In Actas II Coloquio Doctorandos, Programa de Maestría y Doctorado en Filosofía, UNAM (2008). 
• Review of R. Salles, Los estoicos y el problema de la libertad (Mexico: UNAM 2006). ��ó�辱���Dz� 32 (2007), 229-235.
• Review of V. Aspe, Perennidad y apertura en Aristóteles (México: Cruz 2005). ��ó�辱���Dz� 30 (2006), 241-246.

I am also the philosophy reviewer for . My reviews appear Open Access here: 

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A brief interview on my appointment as Head of Department and some biographical information here.